Imaginary (2024)
Imaginary
”When Jessica's stepdaughter becomes obsessed with a stuffed bear, she uncovers its dark secrets.”
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The premise of Imaginary is intriguing: a woman (DeWanda Wise) moves in with her partner and young stepdaughter to the house where she grew up. There, the daughter discovers a small teddy bear, Chauncey, to which she develops an abnormal attachment. However, Chauncey soon reveals itself to be much more sinister than a harmless teddy bear. The concept allows the film to offer some effective scares, but given the superficiality with which it addresses it in the plot, it fails to transcend among the heap of horror movies released month after month. One of the weakest efforts from the Blumhouse studio.
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Plot summary
When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named Chauncey she finds in the basement. Alice starts playing games with Chauncey that begin playful and become increasingly sinister. As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.
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